The Corona pandemic shifted my teaching focus. Beyond navigating crises like climate change or personal struggles, I started asking how my teaching could inspire greater responsibility in my students—whether it’s in their career choices, engagement in social justice, or their actions to protect the planet. These reflections led me to rethink how I teach, aiming to have a lasting impact on how students shape their futures and their contributions to society. My portfolio explores that journey of teaching in times of crisis and change.

Teaching, training and motivation are my passion: When I was at school, later when I started to study the subject and finally in different jobs where teaching and training was my responsibility. In the past, the most important focus of my occupation with education and upbringing was:  How can I get students excited about lifelong learning? How can I light the "fire of learning" in my students that makes them consider learning as a gift that enables them to stay "alive" all your life?

See your surroundings through a different kind of glasses: green glasses and let yourself be surprised! Is there any sign of green change, green projects or green initiatives in your region or at the place, where you travel to? Are there "changemaker" who ambitiously engage in green change, be it local, national or even international?

And after all: can you make others also look through these green glasses?

Telling stories about personal experiences might motivate others to set up "green glaces", e.g. tracking a journey with polarsteps and adding "green spots" to the journey.

Changemaker must not necessarily be famous! You can meet them in your everyday life. But of course there are many green podcasts with famous changemakers to whom listening means an extra portion of learning.